Cheese

Kaitlyn's quote for the day: "Aidan, you have cheese in your ear!"

Nope. We're Canadian!

Our pastor befriended a boy in our community, and he recently engaged him in conversation. He asked the boy if he goes to church. The boy replied rather matter-of-factly, "No, we aren't Christian, we're Canadians!"

Of course, our pastor had to share that with us. Unfortunately, there might be a little truth to that statement...

Cotter's Surprise

Today I was glancing through Aidan's English book looking at future lessons, and as I read through one of the pages, I got quite a surprise. They actually used Cotter's name as an example in one of their lessons! "First Cotter went to the library and gathered some books on his research topic..." It mentioned his name several times. I have never really seen his name is writing when it wasn't directly related to our Cotter, so we were thrilled to find it there! We have never known of anyone else named Cotter or even seen it as a name in a baby book. Cotter thought it was pretty cool and laughed for quite a while.

Avoiding Bad Words

Cotter was sitting at the table reading aloud his "Runny Babbit" book, which is full of mixed up words, where the first letter of two words are exchanged to make silly words, but the original story line can still be followed. I was wandering in and out of the kitchen, half-listening to him as he was enjoying this new challenge. At one point he looked up at me and said, "I'm not sure if I should be reading this book. It has lots of bad words. It has the "s" word, the "d" word...a thoughtful pause...and the "b" word." Well, that caught my attention! I was a bit perplexed at my 7-year-old's account of the words in this book, so I asked him what he meant.

Not wanting to really say the words out loud, he sheepishly said, "It says "stupid," "dummy" and "brat." "Mommy," he says, "is brat a bad word?"